The lives of prehistoric monuments in iron age, roman and medieval Europe

First edition

1 online resource (375 p.); BIOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND MEMENTO -- PREHISTORIC MEMENTOS -- ROMAN AND SAXON ENCOUNTERS -- BURIAL OF STONES IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- THE (EARLY MODERN) HEAT IS ON -- THE MYTH OF THE 'REAL' AVEBURY -- LIVES, AFTERLIVES, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIES -- REFERENCES -- 7: Les Pierres de Mémoire: The Life History of Two Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHANNEL ISLANDS -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- EARLY LIFE: DATING OF THE STATUE-MENHIRS -- Other anthropomorphic stones in Guernsey -- TWO EXCEPTIONAL STATUE-MENHIRS: HISTORICAL DISCOVERY -- Le Câtel menhir -- La Gran'mère du Chim'quière -- THE LIVES OF THE GUERNSEY STATUE-MENHIRS IN THE ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS AND BEYOND -- Le Câtel Menhir -- La Gran'mère du Chim'quière -- The statue-menhirs in the modern day -- CONCLUSIONS: THE ONGOING LIFE HISTORIES OF THE MENHIRS -- Anthropomorphic form -- The Roman period -- The Medieval period -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 8: Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany -- REUSE OF MEGALITHS AND STANDING STONES IN WESTERN FRANCE -- NEOLITHIC 'MENHIRS' IN BRITTANY -- IRON AGE 'STELAE' IN BRITTANY -- BACK AND FORTH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 9: Enduring Past: Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the Roman Occupation in Western France -- THE REUSE OF MEGALITHIC TOMBS IN ROMAN BRITTANY: AN INTRODUCTION -- MEGALITHIC TOMBS AND VENUS STATUETTES ALONG THE GULF OF MORBIHAN -- DISCUSSING THE EVIDENCE AND PIECING TOGETHER THE PAST -- REFERENCES -- 10: The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain -- INTRODUCTION -- MEGALITHIC FUNERARY MONUMENTS -- STELAE, STATUE-MENHIRS, AND ROCK ART -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 11: Megaliths and Holy Places in the Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, ad 718-910) -- INTRODUCTION; Cover -- The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe: An Introduction -- WORDS, NATURE, AND MONUMENTS -- MONUMENTS, POLITICS, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS -- COROLLARY: TOWARDS SUITABLE CONCEPTS? -- REFERENCES -- 2: Before the Standing Stones: From Land Forms to Religious Attitudes and Monumentality -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STUDY OF PERSISTENT BELIEFS -- EARLY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS -- SACRED MOUNTAINS -- SACRED CAVES AND SUPERNATURAL WATERS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Part II: Case-Studies -- 3: Kings' Jelling: Monuments with Outstanding Biographies in the Heart of Denmark -- INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH HISTORY OF THE SITE -- THE 'PAGAN' MONUMENT (MID TENTH CENTURY AD) -- THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH CENTURY AD) -- THE SECOND CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES AD) -- JELLING IN MODERN HISTORY (SIXTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES AD) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 4: Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland -- INTRODUCTION: THE ENDURANCE OF MEGALITHS -- TARA, NEWGRANGE, AND KNOWTH: A HISTORIC SUMMARY -- TARA: BUILDING A LINEAGE FROM THE PAST -- KNOWTH: REVITALIZING THE PAST -- NEWGRANGE: ANOTHER WORLD -- DIFFERENT MONUMENTS, DIFFERENT LIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 5: Beowulf and Archaeology: Megaliths Imagined and Encountered in Early Medieval Europe -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DRAGON'S MOUND IN BEOWULF -- A BIOGRAPHY FOR THE DRAGON'S MOUND -- THE MOUND'S ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALITY -- THE TREASURE'S MATERIALITY -- THE DRAGON'S MATERIALITY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 6: Myth, Memento, and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire, England); Dewey classification: 936; Evocation of the past at Gamla Uppsala (Sweden) -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 17: Piecing Together a Past -- INTRODUCTION: ONE PAST OR MANY PASTS? -- COMMEMORATING THE FUTURE -- IMPROVISATION AND THE LIMITS OF MEMORY: THE RELEVANCE OF ORAL LITERATURE -- MONUMENTS, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIALS -- PROCESSES, EVENTS, AND INTERPRETATIONS -- ESTABLISHING LEGITIMACY -- COEXISTENCE AND CONFRONTATION -- ASSUMPTIONS AND ERRORS -- THE PERSISTENCE OF THE HUMAN FORM -- SCOTTISH STONE CIRCLES-A SUCCESSION OF DIFFERENT PASTS -- The past in 2000 BC -- The past in 1500-800 BC -- The past in AD 100 -- The past in AD 600 -- CONCLUSION-PIECES OF A PAST -- REFERENCES -- Index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Oxford scholarship online; Previously issued in print: 2015; Publication place: New York, NY; THE SANTA CRUZ DOLMEN -- PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS AND 'SIGNIFICANT PLACES' IN THE RISE OF THE ASTURIAN MONARCHY -- DISCUSSING CONTINUITIES BETWEEN THE NEOLITHIC AND THE MIDDLE AGES -- A FINAL REMARK: THE CONTINUITY OF THE MEGALITHIC SITES AS PARISH ENTITIES -- REFERENCES -- 12: Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 bc-ad 1950 -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE -- Anvòia I -- Anvòia II -- Anvòia III -- DISCUSSION: THE 'HISTORICAL' PERIOD -- Fourth century AD -- Modern period -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 13: Biography of a Hill: Novi Pazar in South-Western Serbia -- THE EMERGING STATE -- THE 'ILLYRIAN-GREEK TREASURE' -- OVERLAPPINGS -- DEMARCATIONS -- TRANSFORMATIONS IN SPACE AND TIME -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 14: What Happens When Tombs Die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ALWAYS PRESENT BRONZE AGE LANDSCAPE -- THE RICHNESS OF RESPONSES: BRONZE AGE TOMBS ON CRETE -- WHAT ROLE FOR THE PAST: HELLENIC DEVOTEES OR ROMAN ROBBERS? -- THE BRONZE AGE TOMBS OF CRETE: AXIS OF INTERPRETATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 15: Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited -- INTRODUCTION -- STATE OF THE ART -- THE NATIONAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE (INSTITUT NATIONAL DU PATRIMOINE, INP)/UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UB) 'ALTHIBUROS PROJECT' -- THE MEGALITHIC NECROPOLIS OF EL KSOUR -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions -- 16: The Plot Against the Past: Reuse and Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Efforts of Appropriation -- DISCONTINUOUS REUSE OF MONUMENTS AS ACTS OF APPROPRIATION -- STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION AND THE USE OF MORTUARY MONUMENTS: LESSONS FROM HISTORY -- Evocation of appropriated ancestors in the House of Habsburg